I wanted to get some better ideas of how weight looks at different stages of gain by body height. Mostly because i would like to write a decent description of someone very petite gaining weight. Some of the few pages I've found only go up to 375 and I wanted to kind of get an idea of some errrrr much larger bodies. I just want to be able to do some good descriptive work for my first attempt. i know good writing is more of a "show, don't tell" but the references would be helpful. I've seen a handful on various weight loss and BMI sites, but nothing that gives me a good idea of much larger gains.

As for a 5'2 woman, a lot depends on build etc. I too have a pet peeve of people describing certain height/weight characters completely wrong, it totally kills the story for me. I am 5'2 and a size 18 UK clothes (I think that is around 14 in US?) at the moment and am around 185lbs.

I made a tutorial about this when I was around 170lbs, which you can find here. I've got a couple of pics from that time of me in a corset as well.

I am 5'3, 160ish lbs. i am a size 9 canadian if it fits at the waist, size 11 if it fits at the hips (but keep in mind clothing for a woman varies hugely. My smallest lair of pants is size 7 and my largest is size 13 - they fit the same. My undershirt i am wearing is XL but the blouse is a M).

I am hour glass tending towards the hippy side. I excercise a fair amount so my stomach is pretty flat, but i am overall more filled in. At 145 lbs i am was a large b cup, and size 5ish...so for someone my size, 15 lbs meant a huge difference.

As a writer, I find it a challenge not only to depict the changes in body size and shape at various weights, but also changes in how clothing fits (or doesn't fit) the character, how they move when they walk (slow, slower, how they swing their arms due to body fat, how the fat itself moves), how they feel when they sit down or stand, what happens when/if they exercise (out of breath, etc), and most of all, how they feel about themselves and their bodies. I try to describe what it would actually feel like to be that character at a certain weight. Not always easy since I only have my own personal experience to go by.